Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three people stop by the classroom-turned-office. Staffers eagerly ask if they need an escort. But they don't--they are merely dropping by to see if a friend of theirs, a Saturday night regular, is working...
...caring sergeant, preternaturally wise in the ways of the enemy and the equally hostile terrain; the street wisecracking kid; the slow-drawling bumpkin; a man called Hammer and another called Pretty Boy. And, of course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine need for bonding...
...DEADLY SILENCE (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. EDT). One of the most tragic consequences of child abuse is recounted in this docudrama about a Long Island, N.Y., teenager who hired a friend to kill the father who had molested her for years...
...Airlines counter in Hawaii five years ago to begin a flight to Miami, he aroused immediate suspicion. First he looked and acted nervous. Then he plunked down $2,100 from a bulging wad of $20 bills to buy round-trip tickets for himself and a companion. He and his friend did not check their luggage but chose to carry it on board. And, as investigators discovered, Sokolow used an assumed name and stayed in Miami only 48 hours. In short, his actions matched those in the behavior profiles used by the Drug Enforcement Administration to spot would-be drug traffickers...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...